Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To be fair, the contract was only awarded in August 2024, so that is how long we have been waiting. It is now the end of September 2025. I met the chief executive who came to my offices in Leeson Lane. I put to him the very point the Deputy put about the national train control centre. There are many reasons for that overrun, but it will deliver a state-of-the-art centre. Having said that, the company has delivered ticketless systems across the world and done so very well. I have confidence that it will be able to do so here. I have asked the NTA for monthly reports to give me progress updates. I am also pleased that Indra is now opening new European offices in Dublin, showing commitment to Ireland. While it had staff here, it is now opening full-time offices here, including a new office in Dublin. That is a commitment not only to this project, but to further work it may do. The Deputy can be assured that I am getting monthly reports. I will be meeting the company again early in the new year and we have to hit those timeframes of the phase 1 roll-out.

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